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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roy jr morris”
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  • Lighting Out for the Territory

    How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

    by Roy Jr. Morris ...
    In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before.It’s a decision Huck’s creator already had made, albeit for somewhat different reasons, a quarter of a century ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Fraud of the Century

    Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

    by Roy Jr. Morris ...
    Series series A Political Memoir Bestseller
    In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr, tells the extraordinary story of how, in America’s centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and Black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years of legalized segregation in the South.The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican governor Rutherford ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • American Vandal

    Mark Twain Abroad

    by Roy Morris Jr. ...
    For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books—The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator—he wrote about his adventures. Unintimidated by Old World sophistication and unafraid to travel ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Declaring His Genius

    Oscar Wilde in North America

    by Roy Morris, Jr. ...
    Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Gertrude Stein Has Arrived

    The Homecoming of a Literary Legend

    by Roy Morris Jr. ...
    The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, The Autobiography was actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

    The Complete and Authoritative Edition

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series Book 10 - Mark Twain Papers
    Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**"I've struck it!" Mark ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • When the Astors Owned New York

    Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

    by Justin Kaplan ...
    In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mark Twain

    A Life

    by Ron Powers ...
    Series series An American Literary History
    “Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles TimesA magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Vintage Magazines Identifier and Price Guide

    by Richard & Elaine Russell ...
    A guide to collecting vintage and antiquarian magazines showing major contributors as well as less well-known ones as well as the history and representative prices for most collectable magazines. Guides the reader/researcher through the history of the publications and the contributors that add to a magazine's worth. Originally published as: "Antique Traders Vintage Magazine price Guide". ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diaries Of Adam And Eve. Illustrated. : Illustrated By Lester Ralph (Mobi Classics)

    by Mark Twain ...
    Extracts From Adam's Diary " NOTE.--I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.--M. T." Eve's Diary is a comic short story by ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bohemians

    Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

    by Ben Tarnoff ...
    An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identityAt once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this ... Read more

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  • A Dog's Tale. Illustrated (Mobi Classics)

    by Mark Twain ...
    A Dog's Tale' is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Read more

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